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Reading 29: Financial Statement Analysis: An Introduction

a discuss the roles of financial reporting and financial statement analysis;
b discuss the role of key financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and statement of changes in owners’ equity) in evaluating a company’s performance and financial position;
c discuss the importance of:
financial statement notes and supplementary information, including
disclosures of accounting methods, estimates, and assumptions, and
management’s discussion and analysis;
d discuss:
the objective of audits of financial statements
,
the types of audit reports, and
the importance of effective internal controls;
e identify and explain information sources other than annual financial statements and supplementary information that analysts use in financial statement analysis;
f describe the steps in the financial statement analysis framework.

Reading 30: Financial Reporting Mechanics

a classify accounts into the financial statement elements;
b explain the accounting equation in its basic and expanded forms;
c explain the process of recording business transactions using an accounting system based on the accounting equations;
d explain the need for accruals and other adjustments in preparing financial statements;
e explain the relationships among the income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and statement of owners’ equity;
f describe the flow of information in an accounting system;
g explain the use of the results of the accounting process in security analysis.